[TUHS] cat -v and other complaints
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Thu Aug 30 08:34:05 AEST 2018
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Clem Cole wrote:
[ Excellent screed elided ]
> That said, I give the Linux folks great credit for the addition of
> modules was huge and it took BSD and the other UNIX systems a few years
> really pick up that idea in the same way (yes Solaris, Tru64 and
> eventually HPUX etc.. had something too but again - my comment about
> being generally available applies).
Wasn't SunOS first with dynamic kernel modules, or is my memory worse than
I thought? Linux may have been around at the time, but we never used in
the shop until much later (Red Hat, nicknamed Dead Rat).
> So here is the issue, how to do move the ball forward? BSD, then
> Linux, became the 'stronger strain' and pushed out the old version.
> The problem is the ROMs in my fingers (like Dave) never got
> reprogrammed so some of the 'new' becomes annoying. Will I learned to
> like systemd? We shall see...
Never mind "systemd"; I'm having enough trouble coming to grips with
"launchd" on the Mac... Gimme /etc/inetd.conf any time.
-- Dave
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